Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez released a video depicting how the Green New Deal would turn the U.S. into a Democratic socialist utopia, complete with a bullet train from New York City to D.C.
The video depicts a future where the Democratic Party takes the Senate and White House in 2020 and enacts a Green New Deal that ends up creating a “society that was not only modern and wealthy but dignified and humane too,” Ocasio-Cortez says in the video.
Ocasio-Cortez says Americans need to close their eyes and “imagine” a Green New Deal society before it can happen. Meanwhile, energy experts and economists are skeptical the Green New Deal is possible or even desirable.
“We need to be able to close our eyes and imagine it,” Ocasio-Cortez says in the seven-minute cartoon. “We can be whatever we have the courage to see.”
Climate change is here + we’ve got a deadline: 12 years left to cut emissions in half.
A #GreenNewDeal is our plan for a world and a future worth fighting for.
How did we get here?
What is at stake?
And where are we going?Please watch & share widely pic.twitter.com/IMCtS86VXG
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 17, 2019
Ocasio-Cortez introduced the Green New Deal in February, bungling the bill’s roll-outand creating confusion over her signature legislation. Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey introduced a companion bill in the Senate.
The Green New Deal calls for achieving “net-zero” greenhouse gas emissions in 10 years through a massive green energy build-up, including high-speed rail and retrofitting every building. The bill also calls for universal health care and job guarantees.
The video comes after the Green New Deal fell flat in Congress. The Green New Deal bill got zero votes in the Senate when it was brought to the floor, and parts of it were rejected by House Democrats during a committee hearing — including a “no” vote from Ocasio-Cortez.
Ocasio-Cortez teamed up with Justice Democrats, anti-capitalist author Naomi Klein and The Intercept, a news organization. Ocasio-Cortez said she’d been collaborating “for months” to get the video finished.
Part of the video focuses on Ileana, who Ocasio-Cortez calls “a true child of the Green New Deal.” Ileana gets a union job restoring wetlands in Louisiana as part of the Green New Deal — at this point there’s a labor shortage because of how massive an undertaking the Green New Deal is, says Ocasio-Cortez.
(Somehow all this work, including dismantling pipelines, is accomplished without gas-powered construction equipment.)
Ileana eventually becomes a teacher, then gets elected to Ocasio-Cortez’s seat in Congress. Ocasio-Cortez is recounting all of this while riding the high-speed rail from New York City to Washington, D.C.
Of course, it’s not all rainbows and butterflies, according to Ocasio-Cortez. Sometime in the future, Hurricane Sheldon hits southern Florida and “parts of Miami went underwater for the last time,” the congresswoman says.
However, Ocasio-Cortez says Americans were “lucky” to have enacted a Green New Deal and moved away from fossil fuels when they did — though climate models show the Green New Deal would have no material impact on projected warming.
“But as we battled the floods, fires, and droughts, we knew how lucky we were to have started acting when we did,” Ocasio-Cortez says.
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We’re witnessing the smartphone generation. The old saying about repeating a lie until it’s the “truth” ? Now the lies fly faster and farther, 24/7. There’s no going back.
Perhaps it’s time to remember George Santayana’s remark that “Those who don’t know history are condemned to repeat it.” Here ‘s an alternative : ” When the Saints go Marxing in.”
It is easy to make a utopian video. One that comes to mind is the propaganda film that the Nazis made. It showed Jews leading a very good life in their “relocation centers.” As soon as the filming was finished the Jews used to make it were put in a gas chamber.
When I was in my twenties I worked with a woman near my age who had served in the Peace Corps. Others were working with her from Europe, I don’t know for which organization. My coworker expressed concern about employment when she got home and hustled and got a job right away. Her European companions were not worried at all because they knew that their governments would take care of them. I’m sure they eventually got jobs but this shows one of the weaknesses in that socialism results in less productivity.
I was an electronic technician and went back to school for two and a half years of being a slave to my school work to become an engineer. The only reason for doing this was to better provide for the family I knew I would have some day. Under socialism I would never have done this because the government takes so much it wouldn’t have been worth it. As an engineer I came up with innovative technical solutions that had a huge financial impacts. One of the many consequences of socialism is it takes away the reward for working hard and therefore kills ambition.
A socialist once told me that people who try to get ahead cause trouble.
her and her fellow Democratic Socalists Forced everything send the kids to their indoctrination centers ban all religion send disidence Gulags separate parents from child force everyone into crowed beehive apartments return million of acres of Farmland and Ranchland to the Wilds get all our foods from other nations and ban the Public from the land leave it only for the Imperial Democrats and their wealthy supporters from the various Eco-Freak groups. Reduce America to a 3rd World exitence and forced Population Control(forced Abortion,Forced Euthinasia)and the China One Child Policy
Her version of America coming from her delerous Mind while having orgasim
Let’s be fair here . Does anyone seriously think AOC did most of this ?
Democrat sugar daddies are not going to fork over 100’s of millions for nothing , They bought a cartoon and a clown show .
Even Donald Trump couldn’t have pulled this off .
Imagine… no more people living life in peace
it’s easy if you try
no need for cows or airplanes
a person hood of persons
and climate religion too .
You may say i’m a dreamer
but Bernie is too .
OK not great . The original can't be beat .
“A” for effort, Amber.
John Lennon died rich. Bernie and AO-C will, too.
PS : One of Lennon’s successful investments was dairy cow breeding.
Well, yes, Alexandria, America would need to close its eyes.
Take a vow of poverty, too.
Freedom would become a word found only in print, under Oxford or Webster’s…….
This woman is out of her freaking mind so who is going to watch her mindless piece of socialists propeganda Never let your kids to grow up and become Liberal Democrats otherwise they’ll end up and rediculous and delusional as this Ding-Bat
What a complete ridiculous pile of crap………